Poverty reduction

Performance-Based Financing (PBF) is a system that links payment mechanisms (i.e. “Financing”) to outcomes (i.e. “Performance”). The project is aimed to have a better understanding about how PBF is being operated in Public Health sector in Asian and African countries and how data is collected and managed for PBF projects in such countries. Analysis from the projects is meant to assist PBF practitioners during implementation.

The study investigates the life conditions of rural – urban migrant households in Vietnam. Results of the study become the bases for academic research and governmental evidence-based policy evaluation. Real-Time Analytics was in charge of conducting a 500-household sample survey in Ho Chi Minh City.

Commercialization of agricultural production and access to markets are vital for smallholders and growth in developing countries. Even though, positive growth is recorded in market-oriented agricultural regions, social differentiation still occurs and poverty prevails in certain geographically concentrated areas, i.e. in poverty pockets. The study investigates poverty changing dimensions of agricultural growth and diversification process that unfolds in the Mekong River Delta (MRD), through the conduction of surveys for 640 households in 4 provinces of MRD.

Performance-Based Financing (PBF) is a system that links payment mechanisms (i.e. “Financing”) to outcomes (i.e. “Performance”). In Africa, PBF projects are launched to increase coverage and improve quality for maternal and child health services. PBF operations generate an array of data types that are used for implementation as well as tracking progress of health facilities and the overall PBF intervention.

Results-Based Financing in Healthcare is a system that links payment mechanisms (i.e. “Financing”) to outcomes (i.e. “Performance”). Results-Based Financing in Africa aims to help increase coverage and improve quality for maternal and child health services. In Burkina Faso, The new World Bank operation has extended coverage of PBF to an additional twelve districts distributed across six regions. The objective of the impact evaluation is to the impact of the PBF intervention on maternal and child health outcomes such as quality of care and health service utilization.

Performance-Based Financing in Healthcare is a system that links payment mechanisms (i.e. “Financing”) to outcomes (i.e. “Performance”). Performance-Based Financing in Africa aims to help increase coverage and improve quality for maternal and child health services. In the Republic of Congo, Performance-Based Financing has begun since 2012 and it is now on its road to cover the entire country.

Performance-Based Financing in Healthcare is a system that links payment mechanisms (i.e. “Financing”) to outcomes (i.e. “Performance”). Performance-Based Financing in Africa aims to help increase coverage and improve quality for maternal and child health services. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Performance-Based Financing has begun since 2012 and it is now on its road to cover the entire country.

In an attempt to harness climate change effect on vulnerable groups in developing countries, ADB has designed a program that provides loan for households in Dong Hoi to build biogas digesters to deal with climate change related risk. This project aims to evaluate the impact of increasing the density of eco-toilets and biogas digesters on sanitation, health condition and household incomes in Dong Hoi.

Performance-Based Financing in Healthcare is a system that links payment mechanisms (i.e. “Financing”) to outcomes (i.e. “Performance”). Performance-Based Financing in Africa is aimed to help increase coverage and improve quality for maternal and child health services. Since PBF has not been implemented on any meaningful scale and been systematically evaluated in Cameroon, the results from the impact evaluation are also expected to help design national PBF policy.

Performance-Based Financing in Healthcare is a system that links payment mechanisms (i.e. “Financing”) to outcomes (i.e. “Performance”). Performance-Based Financing in Africa aims to help increase coverage and improve quality for maternal and child health services. In Senegal, RTA is involved in providing survey management solutions to baseline surveys in 4 regions of Senegal: Kédougou, Sédhiou, Tambacounda and Ziguinchor. The baseline surveys for households and health facilities aim to establish health indicators, for future impact evaluation of Performance-Based Financing elements in Senegal.

This project is implemented to improve primary health care and community nutrition using an RBF approach. The development objective of the project is to increase the utilization of community nutrition and primary maternal and child health services in selected regions of The Gambia. This project will target women of reproductive age, including adolescents, and children under five.

The project aims to develop a new management information system (MIS) for Central Highlands Poverty Reduction Project in Vietnam. The new system will strengthen the project’s core function of monitoring and evaluation (M&E), as well as citizens’ feedback channels. The MIS will be made available to stakeholders and citizens through convenient information channels including websites and mobile devices. The system captures three layers of information: (i) Real-time field data and reports, (ii) Geographic information and mapping, and (iii) Citizen feedback

Oxfam in Asia has identified that the Private Sector, especially the agri-business and financial service providers for agricultural production and services, including insurance companies, play a crucial role in building resilience to disaster and climate risks for their businesses, for small-scale food producers and processors. This project is aimed to provide Oxfam a better understanding of the nature of work and current practices of businesses and support services in agriculture as well as their link to building disaster and climate resilience; in order to inform their decisions for future interventions.

From August to September 2015, Bankable Frontiers Associates (BFA) conducted a survey of approximately 500 clients of Capital Aid Fund for Employment of the Poor (CEP) in Ho Chi Minh City. The survey is part of BFA’s work in optimizing performance through improved cross(x)-sell (OPTIX), a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc. (RPA)